The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-09-17
MICHIGAN.
Condensed Reports Of the Latest News
from all Parts OF the State.


There Is talk OF establishing
natatorium in Bay City.
A knights OF Phythias lodge has
been formed at Kalkaska.
--Stnrgis will have 10000 sum-
mcr resort ut Lake Mlnnewaukon.
The central Michigan fair comes
OF at Hubbardston on Sept. 20-23. A
Two hundred Indians are holding
a camp-meeting in the suburbs OF
Cairo.
Mount Pleasant capitalists are
going TO form company and bore
for gas.
The Macomb milk maids. associa-
tion holds its annual convention at
Utica Sept 80.
The wages OF the dock wollopers at
East Tawas have gone up from so To
90 cents an hour.
About one thousand vessels have
dropped anchor at Manistee, since the
opening OF navigation.
There is squash at Battle Creek
which is said to measure five feet and
seven inches in length.
"A Niles family is censured be-
cause il charged colored lecturer s.
to keep him over Sunday.
The fifteenth annual fair OF the
Armada Agricultural society occurs at
that place Oct. 5, 6, and q.
The postofice at Mark, Clare
county, has been discontinued. Harri-
son is the nearest postoflice now.
The Colon horticultural and Art
Association will be open for public
inspection Sept l3, IA, 10 and 10.
The Lapeer county veterans have
decided upon Lapeer as the permanent
location for holding their reunions.
The fair which comes OF at Mar
shall Oct. 4, 3, & and z, will be the
thirty ninth county fair for Calhoun.
"A South Haven miller refused To
grind farmers grist because he
brought it in sack labeled Albion
-four.
AT Howell, Mary Melandy died
from drinking carbolic acid from
bottle which she thought contained
brandy.
Grand Rapids lumbermen have
purchased eighty thousand acres of
timber land eighty-five miles from
Houston.
Daniel Kennedy, of Cadillac, had
his head crushed to pulp by pro-
jecting log while he was coupling cars
Monday.
Thirty men went hunting near
Jackson on Sunday, and warrants are
issued for fifteen Of them for violating
the game law.
Luther will have forty acre fair
ground next year, and an exhibition
for the eastern part of the county will
be held thereon next fall.
Three furnaces are building at
Bay City, for experiments to deter
mine whether crude petroleum can be
converted successfully into illumina-
ting gas.
Daniel Densler, a member of the
Michigan company which captured
JEFF Davis near Abbeville, Ga, in
1865, died at Batavia Monday, aged
~ years.
Contracts have been made for the
machinery for new steamboat TO run
as a fruit carrier between South Haven
and Chicago. She will be built the
coming winter mt south Haven.
Fires are burning all around the
village of PASSPORT, six miles from
Central Lake. The whole community
are lighting the flames. There are
fair prospects of the whole town burn
ing.
An important meeting OF the
millers' state association is called for
Sept. 81 at Jackson. AS the state fair
will be open then millers can attend
10 business and afterward inspect the
exhibits.
Farmers around Pine lake, near
Lansing, were complained of by sports
men last spring for spearing fish. Their
premises now bristle with notices
warning the duck-hunters not 20 tres.
pass thereon.
Charles Smith. OF Cadillac. died
Monday from the effects of the inju-
ries received few days ago by log
falling on his legs lie refused 10
submit to an amputation until Mon
day morning, when it was too late.
"A reward of $500 has been offered
by the citizens OF Gaylord for infor-
nation concerning the person or per-
sons who set the fires last week which
caused the destruction of the CONNER
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